Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

"Seamless connectivity and rich social experience offered by web2.0 companies are the very antithesis of human freedom. Users are entraped in a high resolution panoptic prison without walls, accessible from anywhere in the world. We do have an healthy amount of paranoia to think that everyone should have the right to quit her 2.0-ified life by the help of automatized machines. Facebook and Co. are going to hold all your informations and pictures on their servers forever!"

"We still hope that by removing your contact details and friend connections one-by-one, your data is being cached out from their backup servers. This can happen after days, weeks, months or even years. So merely deactivating the account is just not enough! We are doing our best to expand possibilities of erasing your entire presence, however it is a work in progress. Please note, that we are not deleting your account! Our aim is rather to remove your private content and friend relationships than just deactivating/deleting the account!"

"- If I start killing my 2.0-self, can I stop the process?
- No!
- If I start killing my 2.0-self, can YOU stop the process?
- No!"

http://suicidemachine.org/
http://moddr.net/
http://yugo.at/

Videos & Sounds

The Moddr collective and Worm, a small venue that organizes events, club nights, workshops, etc.

How to use technology in a critical way: workshops and films by Moddr. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, inspired by the idea of "unfriending" others in social networks.

A viral marketing campaign by Burger King: 230.000 people unfriended.

Pretending to be a big company.

The Suicide Machine timeline.

The IP ban from Facebook and ball starts to roll.

The speed of media coverage in the Web 2.0 era.

The news fist started in Twitter ad ended up on TV.

People liked project so much that paradoxically started to create FB pages.

Legal issues and Worm's suicide.

The hacking of a South Park episode celebrating the Suicide Machine.

A similar project: an application removing from your friends the ones with connection with an austrian politician (doing his campaign on FB).

A festival collecting letters from artist groups that received take down notes from various companies: their take down note to Simona Lodi.

Questions and answers

What they want to do now is launch the whole machine and let people distribute the machine and run it from their computer.

Gordan on Facebook.

To raise the awareness about data retention.

What happened in Worm before: The Web 2.0 Suicide Night.

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